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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading

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